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Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation--United States; Civil rights--United States; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

The wartime involuntary evacuation from their homes of over 100,000 persons of a minority group, citizens as well as aliens, was without historical precedent. The decision to impose limited detention upon the evacuees in the relocation centers...